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He Was Sentenced to the Maximum Penalty for Killing His Wife in a Country and Appeared Dead in His Cell.

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The lawyer José Eduardo Figueroa had been sentenced last April for the femicide of Mercedes Kvedaras, whom he asphyxiated in the house they shared with their children in the closed neighborhood El Tipal, on the outskirts of Salta capital

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The lawyer José Eduardo Figueroa had been sentenced last April for the femicide of Mercedes Kvedaras, whom he asphyxiated in the house they shared with their children in the closed neighborhood El Tipal, on the outskirts of Salta capital

·Vicente López, Argentina
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José Eduardo "Jota" Figueroa, sentenced to life imprisonment for the femicide of Mercedes Jiménez Kvedaras, died on the afternoon of Monday while he was being detained at the Prison Unit No. 1 of Villa Las Rosas, in Salta. He had been sentenced on 30 April. The 44-year-old man, a lawyer, was found by staff of the Salta Prison Service. The emergency protocol was immediately activated. Figueroa received medical assistance on the spot and was then …

José Eduardo Figueroa died yesterday afternoon while he was staying in the “F” ward of the Prison Unit No. 1 of Villa Las Rosas, in Salta. The prisoner was serving a sentence of life imprisonment, handed down at first instance, for the homicide aggravated by the link of Mercedes Jiménez Kvedaras, and the circumstances of his death are investigated by the Justice. According to the Prison Service of the Province of Salta, prison staff were alerted…

Attorney José Eduardo Figueroa died yesterday afternoon while in detention at the Villa Las Rosas Prison Unit No. 1 in Salta. He was serving life imprisonment for the femicide of Mercedes Jiménez Kvedaras. According to the Prison Service, Figueroa was assisted after an emergency recorded in Hall F and was taken by ambulance to San Bernardo Hospital, where the doctors confirmed his death. Criminal Prosecutor’s Office No. 2 and the Criminal Invest…

Jos Eduardo Figueroa was found lifeless in the F Pavilion of the Prison Unit N 1 of Villa Las Rosas. He had been sentenced on April 30 to life imprisonment for the femicide of his wife. Justice investigates the circumstances of the death and orders an autopsy.

Buenos Aires 25 August (NA) – José Eduardo Figueroa, the one sentenced to life imprisonment for the femicide of Mercedes Kvedaras in the province of Salta, was found dead in prison a few months after receiving the maximum prison sentence. Criminal prosecutor 2 of the Unit of Grave Attacks against the People, Daniel Espilocín, took action in the last hours after the Provincial Prison Service reported the lifeless finding of Figueroa in his cell t…

·Buenos Aires, Argentina
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fm899.com.ar broke the news on Monday, August 24, 2026.
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